Leptophractus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Order: | †Embolomeri |
Family: | †Eogyrinidae |
Genus: | †Leptophractus Cope, 1873 |
Type species | |
†Leptophractus obsoletus Cope, 1873
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Leptophractus is an extinct genus of embolomere described from an Upper Carboniferous coal mine at Linton, Ohio.[1][2] It probably represents a young growth interval, and is therefore a synonym, of Anthracosaurus lancifer, which was described much earlier from the same deposit at Linton.[3]